Portable fence-post.



PATEN'IED 001*. 2, 1906.

I. J. WILSON. PORTABLE FENGB POST. APPLICATION IILEI? DBO. 29,1905.

A TTDBNE Y5 improve UNITED STATES JOHN J. WILSON,

PATENT orrron.

or LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF TO HENRY LEVI, or LINCOLN,-NEBRASKA.

PORTABLE FENCE-POST.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 2, 1906.

To all whom it mag concern:

Be it known that-1, Jorjiif J. WILSON, a citizen of the United States,residing at Lincoln, in the county of Lancaster and State of Nebraska,have invented a new and useful Portable Fence-Post, of which thefollowing is a specification.

' This-invention relates to fence-posts of the classadapted to be movedfrom place to place to enable the location of the fence tobe changed,and has for its object to simplify and the construction and increase theefficiency of devices of this character.

With these and other objects in View, which will appear as the nature ofthe invention is betterunderstood, the same consists in certain novelfeatures of construction, as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, andin which corresponding parts are denoted by like designatcharacters, isillustrated the preferred form of the embodiment of the inventioncapable of carrying the same into practical operation. v

f In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of I a section of a fencewith the improved posts embodied therein. Fig. 2 is a side elevation,

' enlarged and partly in section, of one of the improved posts. Fig. 3is a sectional detail of a portion of the-upper member of the-improvedpost structure. Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3with the .anchor member detached. Fig. 5 is an enlJarged detail of aportion of the anchor mem- In certain portions'of the country it is thepractice when a tract of pasture-land is exausted to move the fenceinclosing the same to a new location, and as this moving occurs in somelocalities severaltimes each year the importance of a construction .inwhich the time and labor required to effect the moving of the fence anderecting it in the new locality the stock portions protruding from theare reduced to a minimum obvious.

The principal objectof the presentinvention is to produce a simpl postwhich may be quic yerected at any desired oint without the necessity fordigging postoles,

can be quickly accomplished without detachrial of the stock into screw-construct ed fenceand then when it "is required to' move the fencesupported by the posts this The improved device consists of a post 10,

' formed from a metal tube with the lower end contracted, as at 11, withparallel sides for a distance and having apertures 12 transverselythrough the contracted portion. Fitting loosely within the contractedportion of the post is the stock 13 of an anchormember, the latterconstructed by coiling the mateform 14 with theterminallS pointed. Thestock 13 is provided with an aperture 16, adapted to register with theapertures tures for receiving a bolt 17 preferably punctured to receivea spring-key 18 to retain it" in place. The stock 13 fits loosely in thecontracted end 11 of the post 10, so that a certain degree of play isleft between the parts to prevent the rigid uniting of the parts byrusting. The stock portions 13 are thus embraced upon all sides by thecontracted portionof the post, so that no matter from which directionthe strains are applied the post will effectually resist them. This isan 'classwhere the strains are imparted both transversely andlongitudinally of the fence structure. The strains are thus borne by thebody portion of the post and the ins 17 relieved largely of strains. Thee ciency and strength of the post are thus verymaterially increased andwithout increase in weight or material increase in expense.

The fence material represented at 19 is at tached to the posts 10 in theusual manner.

With a plurality of posts constructed as. herein shown and describedwhen a fenceis to be erected the anchor members 13 are inserted byscrewing into the ground (represented 9 at'20) where the posts are to beplaced with ound. The sections of fencing having the osts 1O embodiedthereiniare then disposed of the posts engaging the stocks 13 of theanchor members, and secured in place by the bolts 17 and keys'18. Thelooseness of the a stocks 13 inthe' posts .10 permits the wind act-12,the three alined-aper- I 8o important advantage in structures of this1 position with the contracted portions 11 1 ing' against the posts 1' 0sway the posts slightly,

and thus effectually prevent the stocks becoming fastened in the postsby rusting.

When the fence is to be moved, the strandvires are detached from thecorner-posts and the intermediate posts detached from the anchormembers, the sections of fencing thus released rolled up or otherwisedisposed for convenient. transportation. The anchor members are thenunscrewed from the ground and the corner-posts likewise detaclied and.the fence rcerected in the new locality, as before described. The laborand time required to thus take down the fence and transport it to thenew locality and erect it there are thus reduced to a minimum and can beaccomplished without destroying any part of the structure.

The device can be applied to fences of any length or size, as willbeobvious. Another material advantage of this construction of positions.Thus any part of the fence may be employed as a gate and without injuryto the same.

The anchor members will preferably be of galvanized iron or steel toprevent corrosion.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is- A portablefence comprising an upper member formed of asection of tubing contractednear one end, the portion between said contraction and the end of thetube forming a socket having parallel sides an anchor member formed witha screw portion for entering the ground and with a vertical stock forengaging said socket, said stock being smaller in transverse area thanthe area of the socket, whereby a certain degree of lateral playispermitted between the parts, and meansfor detacha-bly coupling saidstock in said socket.

- E. W. vBROWN,

H. LEVI.

